The Building Safety Regulator strategic plan 2026 to 2027
Tuesday 31st of March 2026
Today, 31st March 2026, The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) published their strategic plan covering 1 April 2026 - 31 March 2027.
The plan outlines five priority areas that will guide their work over the next year:
- Improving operations and processes
- Supporting remediation of buildings with unsafe cladding
- Ensuring safe construction and smooth Gateway 3 approvals
- Keeping safety risks and building standards under review
- Improving professional standards across the built environment
This is a one year plan to allow the BSR to settle into becoming a Non-Departmental Public Body, as well as lay the groundwork for a longer three-year strategy.
The BSR has consulted with the Statutory Residents' Panel to reinforce their commitment to ensuring residents' voices shape regulatory desicisions.
Included in the introduction of the plan:
"How we’ll put residents at the heart of what we do
BSR’s core strength is its people, with our strong ethics, moral focus, and commitment to our purpose. Each decision we make reflects our responsibility and pride in our remit to protect residents in their homes. We listen, we learn, we collaborate, and we act with resident safety and wellbeing as fundamental principles guiding what we do.
Through the Residents’ Panel, engagement sessions and feedback channels, we strive to embed residents’ views and lived experience into policy and operations. We also design and deliver communications that raise awareness of safety responsibilities and support training for resident duty holders.
We will routinely invite a member of the Residents’ Panel to update the new BSR board. To ensure we hear a diversity of perspectives, we directly engage with charities, organisations and interest groups across the resident landscape. We seek challenge and diversity of thought, acknowledging that residents’ needs vary widely.
We exist to protect people, empower them so they are heard, and ensure their safety shapes the decisions that matter most."